Melinda gates

I think the Americans need to understand that a lot of times the children are bored in school, and that is why they are not staying in.

In the developing world, it's about time that women are on the agenda. For instance, 80 percent of small-subsistence farmers in sub-Saharan Africa are women, and yet all the programs in the past were...

We have to be careful in how we use this light shined on us.

I'm constantly saying to myself, 'I'm lucky I was born in the United States.'

There's a false perception that women in Africa somehow don't love their babies they way we do, don't grieve their loss the way we would. That is simply not true.